Felix Kiessling Quitte Eisen Soda

27.01.2023 – 16.04.2023

Opening: Thu., January 26, 19:00

Felix Kiessling Quitte Eisen Soda

Felix Kiessling Quitte Eisen Soda

  • 27.01.2023 – 16.04.2023

  • Opening: Thu., January 26, 19:00

Felix Kiessling (*1980 in Hamburg, lives and works in Berlin), makes the world resonate. In a dynamic and complex combination of sound, light, color, found objects and data processing, the artist creates an ensemble that transposes aurally and visually elusive cosmic phenomena in real time. With kinetic sculptures, a self-playing doubl bass and drumsticks made from oak branches, the artist succeeds in making visible the so-called Schumann resonance as well as global earthquake parameters, thus. and thus visualize the beat of the world. In the medial merging of paintings of spray and resin based paint on canvas, one green-bluish shimmering non-objective LED wall object titled Green Sun and two further light works, which show lightning occurrences of a weather map in real time, a light and sound space unfolds as a laboratory of the senses. Playfully appropriated technological functions fathom the invisible, the hidden meaning; they are devoted to the exploration of environmental forces by means of discarded objects, such as a wrecked car. The view of our environment that surrounds humans in the Anthropocene - due to the ongoing ruthless exploitation of resources - is brought together with a resultant disillusioned attitude towards life, and consequently generates images of a process that is about to collapse. In a visual diversity and abundance, Felix Kiessling’s site-specific installation develops a confused dynamic in space that explores the question of how wear and tear, destruction, and the absurdities of our everyday life might be described, understood, brought together, or conversely be misappropriated on the basis of diverse methodological considerations. perspectives that provides an empathetic view of urban city spaces in the context of a closed-loop system. As a concert in real time, the exhibition develops a score that falls neither within artistic nor human control. The inner complexity of the world underlying the form of appearance is revealed and made tangible as a loud spectacle. In the words of Bruno Latour, it is the world that makes music, makes itself heard, inviting the visitors of the museum to re-experience, re-connect and re-identify with our planet and its seemingly useless and broken remnants.

Credits

Trevor Good
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